Unfortunately the talk scheduled for Tuesday 5 December, due to be presented by Jelka Vince, has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Author: K McAlpine
TCS Talk | Michal Schwarz | 1st December 2017
Location: Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh.
Date: Fri 01/12/2017
Time: 17:45 – 19:00
Speaker: Michal Schwarz (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
The Moon in Selected East Asian Folk Tales. Cosmologies and deities of the moon in selected East Asian languages, traditions and folk tales
Michal’s lecture will focus on examples of folk tales from less known variants of East Asian traditions: for example, a cosmogonic local tale from the Korean Jeju island, and then ethnic Vietnamese and Mường folk tales about deities of the moon. Beside the cosmological complexity of topics in these relatively brief folk tales, the lecture will deal with the historical development of the respective religious traditions through selected theonyms and their use. Finally, Michal will compare Vietnamese syncretic motifs with their counterparts in Indian and Chinese source-traditions.

Forthcoming lecture
Please note that the date has changed for the lecture by Jelka Vince
Jelka Vince, Ivo Pilar Institute. Czech Republic
The Proto-Slavic Pre-Christian Ritual Scenario of a Međimurje Wedding as an Imitation of the Divine Wedding
Tuesday 5th December.
Room G.02, 19 George Sq
17.45-19.00
Fruitfulness and fertility are widely represented symbolically in wedding traditions. The objective of this paper is to examine a wedding comedy from the Međimurje folklore titled “Baba Went Mushroom Picking” from a angle, which is to say as a document of a nonliterate culture, a source and path to the fragmentary reconstruction of former religious systems. Specifically, the paper hopes to reconstruct the vestiges of a Proto-Slavic ritual scenario, on the basis of which the Međimurje wedding could be connected with divine weddings as paradigmatic models for all weddings. The paper also raises the crucial question of whether this performative form also provides insight into pre-Christian wedding traditions, and into the ritual wedding scenario as a repetition of the sacred divine wedding.
Forthcoming lecture: 31 October 2017
Václav Blažek.
Indo-European Astronomical Terminology in the Near Eastern and North Eurasian Context
Tuesday 31st October
16-20 George Square- G.02 *(access at 19 GSQ)
17.30- 18.30
Traditional Cosmology Society AGM
Please note that the Society’s AGM will take place on Thursday 21st September 2017
Time: 18.30
Location: Evolution House Boardroom, ECA – the entrance is on West Port.
Please note that this room is on the 5th floor of the building.
Please see here for full location and access information.